CaseRectangle2017

Selbyville, DE, USA

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Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-08-14
Where
Selbyville, DE, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
38.460, -75.221 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-selbyville-de-2017-3e9376
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • Selbyville, DE has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 22 reports from Delaware.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.7% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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